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Wide Area Information Server Concepts

Publication date: 1989-11-03

Topics: WAIS, Internet History, personal workstations, Charlie Bedard, Franklin Davis, Tom Erlickson, Carl Feynman, Danny Hillis, the Seeker group, Jim Salem, Gitta Sal0mon, Dave Smith, Steve Smith, Craig Stanfill

Collection: wais; additional_collections

Language: English

Wide Area Information Servers Project Documentation, Scanned and uploaded in 2013.

Wide Area Information Servers Concepts was a paper that was widely distributed that painted some of the vision for the project. It had many of the features that came prominent in the World Wide Web (document identifiers), Altavista/Google (Internet based search engines), Siri (searching multiple servers at once in different ways), client-server systems, payment systems, Reddit (distributed editors to play a role in prioritizing documents), integrated personal/corporate/wide area searching (does not really exist yet).